Democratic leaders including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Elizabeth Warren have called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to immediately resign following bombshell revelations that Sessions lied during his confirmation hearings, as reported Wednesday by several media outlets including the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, CNN, Politico, the PBS News Hour and FOX News. Sessions is being investigated by the FBI for contacts with the Russian government during the election.

Warren said in a series of Tweets: “This is not normal. This is not fake news. This is a very real and serious threat to the national security of the United States. We need a special prosecutor totally independent of the AG. We need a real, bipartisan, transparent Congressional investigation into Russia. And we need the Attorney General – who should have never been confirmed in the first place – to resign. We need it now.”